Christians understand the bent of the heart of mankind towards evil. Non-Christians deny there is a moral slippery slope. This article provides a good summary of the moral slide our nation has taken since last Summer’s Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

What is important for Christians to understand now, in the Spring of 2016 is a simple fact: transgender bathrooms is not the end of the battle. Give on this issue, and there will be another and another and another. The moral slippery slope is not only real, it is now our reality.

On Friday, May 13, 2016, President Barack Obama directed all public schools in the country to base their bathroom and locker room usage rules on gender identity rather than sex. On an issue as sensitive as where we shower, change clothes and go potty, Obama decided there was no need for a public debate on the issue. No input from school boards, teachers, principles, superintendents, state legislatures, Congress or parents was required. Obama ruled for the nation.

The new directive affects all public school families. But first, they went after the conservative Christians.

In an April 2015, New York Times op-ed, columnist Frank Bruni argued that Christians “must be made” to change their views on homosexuality.

In that same month, Hillary Clinton told a Manhattan audience, “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed” about abortion.

Many social conservatives had warned that Obama’s actions on public school bathrooms would happen if gay marriage were legalized.

The pattern continues:

Conservative: A could lead to B.

Liberal: Don’t be ridiculous. That’s just a slippery-slope argument. B would never happen.

James Mullin at The American Thinker gives three conditions he would need to see before supporting Donald Trump for president:

First, we’d like a true conservative as your vice president. You two do not need to get along; that’s really fine with us. Second, we’d like to have it written in stone, who the names of your first two Supreme Court appointees will be. Third, we want to see – in writing – your tax plan for your first year in office (the one you will submit to Congress), with it being abundantly clear to us a) how you will simplify the tax code and b) how you will reduce the deficit.

Even if Trump met these conditions, should Christians support a Trump candidacy? I would argue they should not. While Trump can meet the conditions above to attract some conservatives, Christians should judge a candidate on more than these qualifiers.

Where does a candidate stand on the important issue of life vs. abortion?

Where does a candidate stand on issues concerning Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion?

Where does a candidate stand on issues concerning government and corporate overreach on moral issues such as same-sex marriage, transgender issues, etc.?

Where does a candidate stand on fundamental educational issues such as local control of public schools, school choice, and support for homeschool options?

As an aside, I do not believe Christians should require their candidates to claim to be Christians. As we have seen in the past, most presidents to date claim to be Christians, but govern according to their own values and beliefs, not biblical values and teachings. We are electing a magistrate, not a high priest. –Chris Eller

What issues do you think a Christian should consider non-negotiable when making voting decisions?

France’s plan to use its position at the UN Security Council to bring about the deployment of international monitors to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem has been condemned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers as biased, unhelpful and detached from reality.

Certainly it is all those things. But France’s decision to use its diplomatic position to advance a plan which if implemented would end Israeli sovereignty over Judaism’s holiest site is first and foremost a French act of aggression against the Jewish state.

Contrary to what the French government would have us believe, France’s Temple Mount gambit is not an effort to quell the violence. French protestations of concern over the loss of life in the current tempest of Palestinian terrorism ring hollow.

LOWELL, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman has won her appeal to wear a colander on her head for her driver’s license photo as part of a satirical religion that is meant to mock Christianity and its beliefs.

A Democrat candidate for a state representative seat in Minnesota has withdrawn from the race after he drew ire from many — including those in his own party — with a controversial tweet following the Paris terrorist attacks.

It grieves my heart to report this, but let’s hope this will awaken God’s sleeping church to what is happening and cry out in repentance and for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

I warned that France would suffer greatly as it leads the way in the EU and UN against Israel. Much more is coming upon Europe if they continue to interfere with God’s prophetic plan for Israel.

It really does look like the LORD God of Israel has taken the “gloves off” and is stepping forward to deal with the nations. France and the entire European Continent are now under the direct judgment of the LORD with Islam as His rod of judgment. This is out in the open for all to see.